Photo: Chris Upson · CC BY-SA 2.0Stepps has no famous person on record yet
The neighbour with the longest list is Coatbridge, 5 mi away: 109, led by Mark Millar. 19 towns in North Lanarkshire have at least one famous person on record. No town in North Lanarkshire lists more than Bellshill, with 261. After Bellshill, the next longest list in North Lanarkshire is Motherwell’s, with 138.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Stepps’s locality and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Stepps yet.
Famous people born near Stepps
Coatbridge has the longest list next door: 109.
Coatbridge · 5 miMark Millar & 108 more
Cambuslang · 5 miMidge Ure & 42 more
Kirkintilloch · 3 miJimmy Gallagher & 32 more
Bishopbriggs · 3 miAmy Macdonald & 10 moreJBUddingston · 5 miJames Black & 10 moreMBLenzie · 2 miMargot Bennett & 6 moreFBGlenboig · 4 miFrancis Burns & 3 moreISViewpark · 5 miIan Scanlon & 2 moreQuestions about famous people from Stepps
Who counts as from Stepps?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Stepps’ locality (the NRS 2022 locality boundary), a hospital or district within it included, whose English Wikipedia article agrees. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes aren’t listed.
Why is someone missing?
Their Wikidata birthplace may be a bigger area (“London”), another town, or missing, or their article may give no birthplace. We only list people both sources agree on; editing Wikidata or Wikipedia changes this page at the next refresh.
From Wikidata (CC0: birthplaces, descriptions, years, occupations) and English Wikipedia (each person’s article confirms the birthplace; linked, not quoted). Birthplaces are placed in the town by National Records of Scotland’s Census 2022 locality boundaries (Open Government Licence v3.0). Ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover each person. Fields are read from Wikidata’s description and occupations. “The usual town”: everyone listed across UK towns. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (4)
- Mark Millar: Luigi Novi, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Midge Ure: Sven Mandel, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jimmy Gallagher: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Amy Macdonald: Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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